macOS Automator - This folder action will not receive input

[HDFan]

I want to setup an automator script to watch for changes in a folder (new pictures added) and add the photos to a Photos album. I added the "Import Files into Photos" item and received the error when I ran it within automator:




So I added the "Get Specified Finder Items" action.



No change. Still get the error message.

 

[Red Menace]

When running the workflow as a folder action, it gets passed items that have been added to the target folder, but when running from Automator, it isn’t a folder action, so the workflow won’t automatically have any items passed to it. As mentioned in the dialog, you can temporarily add an action such as Get Specified Finder Items to get something for the workflow to use for testing or whatever. When specifying the same folder that you are using for the folder action, if you are expecting it to work the same as a folder action, that isn't going to happen. If there aren’t any image files in the folder for the Import Files into Photos action, then it will error because it doesn’t have any input, so you might try another action such as Ask for Finder Items to select known image files.